Education Support publishes an annual Teacher Wellbeing Index tracking stress and burnout across the profession. The figures are consistently high. But headline numbers on their own do not always help us understand what is driving that, or what actually makes a difference in day-to-day school life. This post explores what the research suggests about burnout in UK primary schools, what tends to help in practice, and why some of the standard advice does not always land.

Long before Moments add up® became a phrase we used publicly, it reflected an observation about how schools work. Schools are sustained not only by curriculum design, assessment frameworks, and accountability structures, but by the human moments that bring those systems to life.That is not something teachers or leaders need explaining. It is something you recognise daily, often in the margins of a busy schedule, and often without much space to pause and take stock of its significance.

Most subject leaders writing their report right now are doing so from a less-than-complete monitoring picture. This post is for them. It covers how to have the right conversation with your headteacher before you write, how to take stock of what you actually have, and how to write with honesty and specificity rather than glossing over the gaps. Because a report that reflects where your subject really is, and where it needs to go, is more useful to everyone than one that describes...

Ask ten subject leaders what counts as evidence and you will likely get ten different answers. The reality is that good evidence is not one specific thing, but a range of sources that, taken together, build a clear picture of what is happening across your subject. This post explores what that evidence actually needs to do, which sources tend to be most useful in practice, and how to build that picture over time without it becoming an extra task.

Writing a subject leader report should not feel like translating your work into a language nobody asked for. The best ones are not long or particularly complicated. They explain what you set out to do, what you found when you looked, and what you are planning to do because of it. That is genuinely most of what it needs to be. Here is a simple way to think about structure, evidence, and tone that makes it less of a mountain.